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we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: consider evergreen college, nonwhite students symbolically left campus and attended the antiracist events. at this year, student activists said all white people leave campus or else. he called to the race-based demand a show of force and an act of oppression. in response to that, here's what happened. >> this is not about you. this is not --
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>> a >> tucker: professor brett weinstein joins us right now, thank you for coming on, what exactly was going on there, what happened? >> what happened is 50 or so students decided to disrupt the class that i was holding that morning and demand my resignation. >> tucker: because he wouldn't leave campus because you're white? >> they imagined that i am a racist and that i am teaching racism in the classroom, and that has caused them to imagine that i have no right to speak,
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that i am harming students at the very effective teaching the them. >> tucker: what happened after the video cut out? >> that's an interesting story, the campus police showed up outside of the classroom, the protesters then blocked their entrance. i did not call the police, someone else called the police and they were concerned for my safety. when they tried to come into the building to make sure i was okay, the protest block to them. because the issue of policing is so sensitive at the moment, the police had to run around and try to find another entrance to the building and get inside and check with me. at the point they did that, the protesters moved on and corralled the president of the college at his office, they extracted some demands from him, among the demands, was there would be a meeting -- demands a strong word, a concession that they would be a meeting at 4:00
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and a large room on top of our library building. that meeting took place at the end of the day, believe it or not, it was far crazier than the video that you just showed. >> tucker: this whole story is so over-the-top even though we do a lot of these it's hard for me to believe it's real. the core demand is that all people of your skin color leave the campus. your president is a guy called george bridges, where was he? there he is right there, he's supposed to be running this school, why is he allowing a mob to threaten one of his professors? >> i must say, i have some concern that the story is so strange that it's not even going to make sense to an audience that isn't local to the campus. dr. bridges is allowing this mob to effectively control the campus, and they have been in
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control since 9:30 on tuesday morning. at this moment, i believe dr. bridges is answering a set of demands put forward by the protesters and they have said that if he does not accept their demands, that there will be violence. i do not know what his response to those demands is going to be but i know that is taking place at this hour. he is also told the police to stand down, although the campus police have a sense of what it is that needs to happen, they have been hobbled by the fact that they answer to the college administration and in fact for several days have been barricaded in the campus police station. it >> tucker: oh, my gosh, this is something out of another country. it's hard to believe any of this is real. our viewers should look this up online, there's a lot of pieces on the story it's hard to convey on television.
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you had this powerful line in your letter. i assume you are no kind of right winger, if you teach at evergreen, i assume you're a hillary. >> i'm a deeply progressive person, not to hillary voter, i'm troubled with this implies about the current state of the left. if >> tucker: you said people shouldn't be allowed to speak or not on the basis of their skin color which seems like a foundational belief of the left and one i agree with strongly. for that they physically threatened you and are trying to get your fired. >> they are absolutely trying to get me fired, and they believe that my words in my email are transparently racist. if i think were caught quite off guard when people who were not at evergreen read my letter and couldn't find any racism in it. if >> tucker: godspeed to you and i hope you will come back wh an update on the story because
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it's one of the most amazing things i've ever seen, thank yo thank you. >> tucker: if you found that compelling, next monday were putting on a full hour on campus stories dedicated to menace that is consuming our college campuses, here's a preview of that. >> you have an absolute right to express your views come up. back. that would include whiteboards. it's kind of simple. >> the idea of freedom of speech is essential to our country that's what our country is founded on print the idea that you could disagree with somebod somebody. >> tucker: if i were to go to a rally and people said pigs in a blanket fry like bacon about police officers advocating the killing of cops, you would say that's an accessible, that should be allowed. >> if student groups want to have a discussion about police brutality. >> tucker: if they were to use that phrase. >> i'm not interested in the
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phrase. >> tucker: you have no principles, that's why. that's coming up to memorial day, usual time, 8:00 p.m., eastern, grab a beer. republican congressman thinks the u.s. should try to work with russia in some cases when it helps us. for that he's being denounced as a russian spy. the victim of hey, need fast heartburn relief? try cool mint zantac. it releases a cooling sensation in your mouth and throat. zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. nexium can take 24 hours. try cool mint zantac. no pill relieves heartburn faster.
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>> tucker: if you need to know how the d.c. smear machine works, look no further than the case of california congressman dana ward bacher. he thinks the u.s. may have more to gain by cooperating with russia than by fighting with them. it may sound familiar since barack obama held it's just a few years ago but things have changed dramatically in washington. last week "the new york times" targeted him, saying he was warned in 2012 that russian intelligence was trying to recruit him. now the left is treating him like a russian spy even though there is no evidence he did anything wrong. congressman, thanks was coming on. >> good to be with you. >> tucker: are you now or have you ever been a spy for the russian government. >> no, nor have i ever received any financial support from the russian government or russian people, that's all baloney. >> tucker: the essence of this story is that russian agents who
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are not named according to officials who are not named were discussing ways to recruit you, do you think that's true? >> that's the essence of the story, i'm the chairman now of the subcommittee in congress that oversees our relations with europe, russia, and central asi asia. i have been on a congressional delegation to russia, i have met a member of the state equivalent of the russian state department there. if he was later transferred to washington and went out of his way to remake our acquaintance. that's what the fbi was warning me about that he was an intelligence officer. if i treat i treat anybody fromn embassy or frankly in the embassy as an intelligence officer, that's the rational
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thing to do. if >> tucker: the implication of the story is that you were doing something wrong. the obvious question is that was five years ago, why did it come out now? is what we are experiencing, something with no substance in it, has been stated in a very sinister way to leave people with the idea that i have done something or president trump has done something wrong, and we in some way have done something that isn't beneficial to the united states but is in some way beneficial to russia. at the same time, the people with that sinister idea don't even mention hillary clinton or the clinton foundation raising millions of dollars from oligarchs in russia at the same time, they are selling away america's uranium to those oligarchs. if >> tucker: if you look up mccarthyism, this is what it
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looks like, this is the definition of it. do you think united states is a policy matter has something to gain from cooperating with russia under certain circumstances? >> i am a lone voice except for president trump, he has the same inclination and that is got to prioritize who our enemies are. in world war ii, our enemy was adolf hitler and the japanese militarists and we needed joseph stalin and we worked with him. our primary enemy is no longer the soviet union, the cold war is over. i fought the cold war as you might remember. i did a lot of things in the cold war to defeat the soviet union. the soviet union doesn't exist, our priority right now has to be radical islamic terrorists. if there's a nuclear bomb that goes off in one of our cities, that will be the enemy. we need to cooperate with russia, they are being murdered just like the rest of our allies to diffuse the primary enemy.
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i get a lot of guff about that because there is an unrelenting hostility toward russia -- it's an imperfect government there. they are not as good a democracy as our western european allies. but they should be helping us to defeat radical islam. >> tucker: finally, is this having real-world consequences? mccarthyism by its nature hurts people, makes it harder for them to do the jobs they do. has this affected your life? you're running for reelection, is this an issue in the campaig campaign? >> we have multimillionaires who are running against me now who will probably put out and already have been putting out these hit pieces that are aimed at trying to convince people that have been engaged in some type of illegal act or something -- it's the same thing they are doing with trump. let's face it. all of these sinister implications when there's
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nothing there they are. i've been looking for proof that the russians had something to do with hacking into the dnc emails, but it's not there. after you hear these people testify, trump is being castigated now and this is an attempt and i'm in the same boat. trump is doing a good job. he's over there expanding america's influence among people who thought we were pushovers for the last eight years. both on the terror side also on our allied side. i'm proud to be backing president trump in these efforts. >> tucker: congressman dana rohrabacher who when it mattered was on the right side of the fight against russia, thank you for that. micro, champion of the working man joins us next, never missed that including tonight, be right my business was built with passion...
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>> tucker: two days ago, protesters demanded the company pay the company a $15 minimum wage. do the protesters really wants to get their wish? what would happen if they did? working at mcdonald's is not that complicated, what a $15 minimum wage drive further automation and lead to mass layoffs. no one really knows that's a concern we brought up with former dirty jobs host mike row rowe. thanks for joining us, protesters have gathered outside mcdonald's demanding higher wages. on the one hand, i'm sympathetic to people wanted to get paid more especially for jobs that are hard and long. on the other hand, at what point does mcdonald's has to decide where replacing it with automation, with robots? >> probably with this point, or probably soon. everybody i've talked to is
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going back again and again to the threat of automation. the headlines that i am seeing are how computers are going to steal our jobs. i don't know that it makes sense to anthropomorphize it, i don't think computers are going around twirling their mustache and laughing maniacally, but it's going to happen. it's going to happen just as surely as the internet messed up the tv, tv messed up cinema, cinema disrupted radio and radio messed up newspapers and candle screwed up booksellers and so it goes. i don't think it is anything to panic over but as it relates to the minimum wage conversation and as it relates to labor and management, the only thing i can add to it is with my foundation, we try to remind people that learning a skill that's actually in demand negates the whole conversation. if you can weld, if you're a plumber, if you are an
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electrician, if you are willing to learn a skill that has a pre-existing demand that you don't have to constantly negotiate and talk about a few extra dollars in order to stay in a position that frankly i don't know how you advance in that kind of thinking. our philosophy is pretty simple. if you have a skill and that skill is in demand, you can work where you want, you can write your own ticket. if you don't, you're going to have to hope the next negotiation works out in the next minimum-wage position falls favorably in your direction which strikes me as fatalistic. >> tucker: that's such a common sense point -- >> i can't help it. >> tucker: it makes inherent and unassailable sense. why aren't our schools encouraging some percentage of kids to do the same thing? >> as we've discussed before, i think we've got it in our heads that there's a category of good jobs and bad jobs there's a category of good education and
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bad education. we don't call it that, we call it higher education and alternative education. it's fun with the language. in the minute you categorize an entire vertical of education as alternative, you might as well call it subordinates. the message starts early on. if you go to a trade at school, you're going to have to settle for a second-class job or some kind of vocational consolation prize. parents don't want that for their kids. violence counselors don't want that for their schools, so all of these opportunities that today constitute 5.6 million available jobs, open jobs that are sitting there, they don't get any press and i don't get an a love because somewhere back in the reptilian part of our brain we believe they are substandard, that's donna. if >> tucker: so many people wind up in what we call the sharing economy, a few billionaires export them for nothing, these are jobs that paid many times that, or am i missing it? >> it's tempting to take a
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cookie-cutter approach to everything. what's a news anchor get? it kind of depends. same thing with welding, if you have your certificate to weld in oklahoma, you might start at 45 grand a year. a year later, you might be in north dakota making 120 grand or in the gulf doing better than that bridge of the skill goes where you go. this is another thing that schools don't teach. if you have a skill that's in demand, it's innate in you. it's portable. it's inherently mobile, you don't have to go to mcdonald's, with respect. you don't have to go to the retailer and stand behind the counter and wait for the business to come. no one talks about the path to small businesses that trades represent. they just don't talk about it. on my old show, i can't tell you how many people i ran into who had a small business who had
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employees, who had multiple trucks but started with a skill. my thing with the minimum-wage and automation, with all of it is anything we do that knocks the bottom rungs off of the ladder, we almost surely climb. it's self-defeating. if getting to $15 per hour hastens automation and therefore eliminates thousands of opportunities for kids who are not just learning how to flip a burger but how to talk their shirt and, how to show up on time. basic stuff. how else do you learn that except by being in your first or second job? we're going to arbitrage logic right out of the equation and of them duty, take a bow.t's very , you're not reading anything that i can assure our viewers. >> i can't read, tragically.
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it's always great to see you. >> tucker: we are told to follow our hearts and now a woman is doing that by mirroring her true love a train station in san diego. the craziest story of the day or merely somehow, the
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>> tucker: we devote a hold show to weird news but the weirdest wheat save for last and to sort out the weirdest from the merely weird are top that panel. tonight joining us, ashley pratt contributing u.s. news & world report and katie freights contributing editor at olympic media. you first. >> wonderful, there are two friends that go to mexico on a
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trip and they really like the tortillas that are served at this burrito restaurant. they wanted to take the recipe back to portland, oregon, very progressive era, you would think they would like mexican food and like diversity in their food and culture. apparently not. they get so much backlash because the two women that own the restaurant decided to talk about how they met with these two mexican women when they were there and ask them about the recipe is and how they made the tortillas that were so buttery and delicious and people were outraged. now there pareto truck no longer exists. social media account scrubbed. >> tucker: because they appropriate the culture of mexico. >> because they opened a pareto truck in portland, oregon, and that was way too much for portland, oregon. >> tucker: that's deeply offensive, i'm on side completely. that's pretty bizarre, can you beat that? >> it's said that they lost out on good burritos. you assume the heart wants what the heart wants. there's a woman and her name is
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carol and carol is deeply and madly in love with a train station. >> tucker: with a building? >> the santa fe train station. she is love that ever since she was a little girl and she identifies as objective is sexual. one type of therapist says there are about 40 of these people in the world. she travels 45 minutes by bus every day day to me today drawh is a train station. she walks around every day and speaks to her and leans up against her favorite wall and says she can feel that role holding her head kissing her. it's unclear if they've taken it all the way. >> tucker: let's keep it unclear. >> her therapist says these people are frequently desperately lonely. >> tucker: were laughing at this now, because she hasn't set up her own lobbying group in d.c. and make it illegal to be making fun of this. >> they have to be putting millions of dollars behind that
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>> tucker: america's talking diversity is secretive in admissions, and never talk honestly about how students get in either rejected or accepted on what criteria. now, thankfully and thanks to an ongoing lawsuit from asian students who say they are a victim of discrimination, princeton has released a small portion of their admission records. the revealed documents expels a childish obsession with the school having the flavor, the admissions officer wrote, "there were a touch more cultural flavor, if there where i would be more enthusiastic." another hispanic i clement was -- no cultural flavor in the
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abdomen you like shakespeare in our champion in this tough luck. if you're -- the theory of the document alien in the still feel, no acceptance for you. the more assimilated an american you wear, the more less likely where to get in. of course, all of these changes as soon the princeton people review applicants who art from preferred groups. high achieving asian athletes were forbidden from being "standard premed" for having very familiar profiles. the only time asian flavor was a good thing when one applicant happened to be with fs panic and half korean, which is also creepy by the way, which they described as a neat blend, as if the kid was a blue truck as if a person. this is how america's elite annoyance our future leaders. do you feel more confident about the future they are grooming? also bizarre but that's it for us tonight. tune in every night at 8:00 for the show that is the sworn enemy
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of the line, verbosity, smugness, and groupthink. we've got an hour-long special on campus. we will see tuesday. "the five" starts now. ♪ >> and jesse watters along with kimberly guilfoyle, richard fowler, lisa boothe, and greg gutfeld. 9:00 in new york city. this is "the five" ." ♪ big show for your tonight. hillary clinton returns to her alma mater today. lodges and called out on the out war on president trump. >> you are graduating at a time when there is a full-fledged assault on truth and reason. >> i'm sure graduates would've liked to hear something more upliftin a

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